Now, as he spends at least the next 18 years in prison, Victoria has taken to the skies again in her first skydive since the incident.

"Putting the date of the jump in my diary made the memories of my fall come rushing back, far more vividly than before," the 42-year-old told Mail on Sunday.

Victoria Cilliers has taken to the skies again in her first skydive since her husband tampered with her parachute in April 2015 (Just Giving)

"There have been many nights when I couldn’t sleep, or when I would wake with my heart racing, jumping out of my chest, and flashbacks playing on a loop in my head.

"If I didn’t jump, I couldn’t fall. It was that straightforward. Suddenly there was a time and a date and a place and I had to deal with the emotional impact of the promise I’d made to myself."

In spite of her understandable nerves, the mother-of-two stuck to her guns and completed a tandem dive last Sunday at the London Parachute School’s airfield in Oxfordshire, UK.

The mother-of-two did the jump to raise money for the air ambulance service she credits with saving her life (PA/AAP)

Giving her the push she needed was the fact that it was all for charity - the Wiltshire Air Ambulance, whom she credits for saving her life.

The mum is trying to raise $3,150 (£1,700) for the important rescue service and tells people on her Just Giving page: "The charity that in conjinction with ground paramedics went a long way to preserving my life."

"The last few years have provided incredibly hard mental and physical challenges," Cilliers began.

The experience skydiver managed to survive the fall but has been too terrified to jump again since (PA/AAP)

"I have overcome each hurdle as they presented to me but the biggest has been the desire to experience freefall again yet terrified of the consequences.

"The jump in April 2015 has, at times, played on loop in my brain and I wanted to jump again to reset that memory.
"I have considered jumping many times over the last few years but needed a push. That push has come from the realisation that some good could come out of this situation and I would jump publically in order to raise money for Wiltshire Air Ambulance .

"The charity that in conjunction with ground paramedics went a long way to preserving my life."

Sgt Emile Cilliers was convicted in May on two counts of attempted murder for the parachute tampering and sabotaging a gas valve at the couple's home (PA/AAP)

Mrs Cilliers, an experienced skydiver, survived the April 2015 fall of 4,000 feet (1,200 meters) by landing on a newly plowed field but broke her vertebrae, ribs and pelvis in the fall.

Following a long court case, Sgt Emile Cilliers was convicted in May on two counts of attempted murder for the parachute tampering and sabotaging a gas valve at the couple's home.

Judge Nigel Sweeney told him "this was wicked offending of extreme gravity", according to the Associate Press.

The father-of-two was sentenced to life in jail with an 18-year non-parole period (PA/AAP)

Sweeney also told Cilliers, according to the BBC, that he was "of quite exceptional callousness and a person who would stop at nothing to gratify your own desires".
"You continued to pursue your selfish financial, emotional, and sexual desires," he said.

Prosecutors said the 38-year-old defendant was deeply in debt and wanted his wife's life insurance money to pay off his bills and start a new life with his lover, which he was texting her about as his wife lay in hospital, the court heard.

During the trial the court heard of the affair Mr Cilliers was having with Stefanie Goller, a woman he met on Tinder (PA/AAP)

During the trial, the court heard Cilliers had amassed debts totalling AUD $37,000 and was having an affair with a woman named Stefanie Goller whom he met on Tinder.

In the event of his wife's death, Mr Cilliers would have received AUD $203,000 in life insurance.

South African-born Cilliers is believed to have removed the vital "slinks" from his wife's parachute in the toilets at the airfield ahead of her jump.